Guest Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 queue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 Good Job - it was too easy ... but hey, it was my first go around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 What English word retains the same pronunciation, even after you take away four of its five letters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 "Q" is not a word by itself, and it's pronounciation by itself is more of a 'k' sound. The only one letter words that exist that I know of are "A" and "I." Interesting riddle, though, and it could work with that tweek figured in.Are you sure that works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 @jpar: I disagree. The OP never states that the result of the letter reduction must be a word, only that it would have the same pronunciation as the original word. One may argue that Q is not pronounced as queue, as you have. I'm sure there are many people, myself included, who would say that Q is pronounced the same as queue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 (edited) aitch - (a, c, i & t) => h queue - (e, e, u & u) => q wrought - (g, h, u & w) => rot [minus 4, but of 7 letters] Edited August 18, 2010 by Dej Mar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 œthel - (e, h, l & t) => œ Œthel is the English name for the runic letter œ. And, as are q(ueue) and (aitc)h, it can be pronounced the same minus the four other letters œ(thel). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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